Subject: Re: Heads-Up: support for device rescan and detach
To: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/16/2004 17:29:37
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:50:40 +0100 (BST)
David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> > - Interrupts during probe and attach? Would be a hardship
> >   to disable generally. DEC OSF/1 (or what it is called
> >   currently) has a special flag for this.
>  	I think at least vax needs interrupts enabled in order to probe
>  	for which interrupt during attach.
Yes. A Qbus / UniBus driver that wants to use interrupts _must_ cause an
interrupt during probe / match. The uba(4) driver wants to catch the
interrupt to get the interrupt vector and level of the device.=20
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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